Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

Send us a text"I’m very proud and satisfied that I’ve walked the path of that middle ground. Which is both being a practitioner as well as a scholar."Dennis C. Roberts is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He last served as Assistant Vice President of Education for Qatar Foundation (QF). During his seven years with QF, he worked with Qatari and expatriate colleagues to create the student development and support services for its branch universities at Education City in Doha, Qatar. Before working abroad, he was Associate Vice President of Student Affairs at Miami University. He is past president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA). He has been a member and presenter at the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the International Leadership Association. He has authored six books and over 50 book chapters and other articles on student affairs, student learning, and leadership.Learn More About Denny's WorkBook: Student Leadership Programs in Higher Education (1981)Book: Deeper Learning in Leadership: Helping College Students Find the Potential WithinBlog: Pursuing Leadership by DennyBlog: Global Student AffairsSocial Media: Denny on TwitterQuotes from This Episode"I think a characteristic of people who are more inclined to really engage in leadership is curiosity...it’s not a big word. It’s not complicated, but it’s simply being curious about your surroundings, about other people, and about other cultures.""A translator and integrator. That’s who I’ve always been.""Musicians are a fantastic example of complicated leadership because you’re dealing with trying to create a voice so that others will understand. You’re trying to bring disparate instruments and perspectives together. You’re trying to push the envelope without going so far that you turn people off."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeSAP Insights - Blank CanvasSAP Insights - The PassionatesChicago Symphony OrchestraAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connec♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textGary Lloyd has led organizational change initiatives for nearly thirty years. Over the last decade, he has also helped professionals make personal and career changes in his role as a member of Warwick Business School's Executive Coaching Panel and as a steering committee member for its mentoring program. He spent most of his career in banking and financial markets. However, through his consulting and coaching work, he has also worked with clients in manufacturing, construction, logistics, food processing, and IT services.Learn More About Gary's WorkBook: Gardeners Not Mechanics: How to cultivate change at workWebsite: Gardeners Not MechanicsQuotes From Gary's Book"The world of work is an ecosystem of interdependent organisations, groups, and individuals. So, if you want to make a sustainable change at work, you are more likely to succeed if you approach your change as a gardener, not a mechanic.""Mechanics rely on predictability. They assume that the same inputs produce the same outputs, time after time. A car, for example, will perform as predicted on a tarmac road.""Gardeners know that their environment is unpredictable, with much of it outside their control. Gardeners, therefore, take small steps towards a bigger goal. They experiment to find out what works and what doesn't and continually adjust to what they find out."Resources Mentioned In This EpisodeBooks: Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment & Thinking Fast & Slow Books: How Emotions Are Made & Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain Book: Livewired Book: Think Again Podcast: SidewaysDocumentary: The Mole AgentAbout The International Leadership Association (ILA)The ILA was created in 1999 to bring together professionals with a keen interest in the study, practice, and teaching of leadership. Today, ILA is the largest worldwide community committed to leadership scholarship, development, and practice. Connect with Your Host, Scott AllenScott's other Podcast - The Captovation PodcastLinkedInWebsite♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textDr. Dennis Tourish is Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of the journal Leadership, and the author of several books including The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership, published and Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research. He is a proponent of the Responsible Research of Business and Management Network an organization that envisions a world where business and management research is used in practice to improve the lives of people. Learn More About Dennis' WorkArticle: The Triumph of Nonsense in Management StudiesBook: Management Studies in Crisis: Fraud, Deception and Meaningless Research Dennis Tourish at Google ScholarQuotes From This Episode"Too much of our research has driven around what statisticians call p-hacking, where you keep on running statistical analysis beyond the point of reason to torture the data into confessing.""It’s entirely possible to have a satisfactory and interesting career without ever publishing an article in the Academy of Management Review. And very few academics will do it. So by that standard, we are all pretty much failures.""I think it’s more important to have an enjoyable career, to do work that matters to us, and remain interested, focused, and curious, above all be curious, throughout our academic careers.""The world is moving fast and our scholarship needs to reflect that in a more timely manner than it does. I don’t mean that we should cut corners on our work. But we can certainly offer interesting ideas in a more timely manner than we seem to have been doing in the past."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeResponsible Research for Business and Management (RRBM)♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textWhy does she engage in the work? For Dr. Jackie Bruce, it's crystal clear - and it's inspiring. "For me, the 'Why' is that we are creating a more equitable, more just, more liberated community. That's the point...not just to improve the bottom line...but so that every single person can be the person they were meant to be. That's the point." Her clarity struck me in a powerful way. Dr. Jackie Bruce is an Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Programs  Agricultural & Extension Education and Undergraduate Coordinator, Leadership in Ag & Life Sciences Minor at North Carolina State University. She resides in the department of Agricultural & Human Sciences and teaches courses in leadership development & qualitative research methods, and advises undergraduate and graduate students. She serves as the Co-Director of the Oaks Leadership Scholars Program, is an Equal Opportunity Institute Graduate Scholar, and an LGBT Center Advocate. She enjoys great discussions and direct action related to creating more inclusive communities. Jackie is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Leadership Education and is honored to work with a vibrant community of leadership scholars and practitioners.Learn More About Jackie's WorkJournal of Leadership EducationDr. Bruce at Google ScholarQuotes From This Episode"The moment when we acknowledge that anybody can be a leader is huge.""As the conversations become more complex, as the world becomes closer, as the problems become more nuanced...the old stuff maybe doesn't fit anymore.""When I think about why we do this...why do I go into the classroom every day to educate young people on leadership? For me, the 'Why' is so that we are creating a more equitable, more just, more liberated community. That's the point...not just to improve the bottom line...but so that every single person can be the person they were meant to be. That's the point.""My K-12, educator friends use the phrase 'you got to Maslow before you can Bloom." It's the idea that we have to have those basic needs met. Kids have to be fed, sheltered, and clothed. They have to feel like they belong. They have to feel secure. And then we can start teaching them reading, writing, and arithmetic."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeIbram X. Kendi  - How To Be An Anti-Racist Podcast: Pod Save AmericaPodcast: Coffee Break ItalianWebsite: Crooked Media♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textStretch your mind and explore the world of integral leadership! This quote stood out for me - I have a lot to learn! "Instead of looking at linear causality  ('well, we’ll have to figure out who’s to blame'), people can start to see that there are multiple considerations, multiple influences, systemic ways of looking at things. That has been one of the core elements of integral leadership."Dr. Jonathan Reams has an insatiable curiosity about the essence of human nature and how to cultivate this essence in the service of leadership. He is a professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, where he teaches and researches leadership development, coaching, and counseling. He serves as Editor-in Chief of Integral Review, A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Praxis and Research. He is also a co-founder of the European Center for Leadership Practice and the Center for Transformative Leadership. Jonathan’s Ph.D. is in Leadership Studies from Gonzaga University.Jonathan practices the cultivation of leadership through consulting and leadership development program design and delivery. He brings awareness-based technology to this work, focusing on how the inner workings of human nature can develop leadership capacities for today’s complex challenges. Learn More About Jonathan's WorkArticles by Jonathan Videos of JonathanJonathan's WebsiteQuotes From This Episode(On consciousness) "the simple four-quadrant map where there’s the interior subjective world, but there’s also the external behavior of individuals. Then there’s the collective interior of how culture shapes how we show up as individuals, but there are also external systems, institutions, rewards, and all those kinds of things. So all of this helped me see that there’s more to it than just consciousness. There are interdependencies between these things. And nobody was really talking about this in terms of leadership.""One that has been foremost in my thinking and work is really this developmental notion that we mature, as we grow older, and that the structures or forms or ways you can characterize that maturity, don’t stop just because our bodies stop growing.""In terms of leadership, I’ve seen some things that a friend of mine would call 'proto-integral' - you see people who are starting to put more pieces together."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeFuture Trends in Leadership Development by Nick Petrie♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textThis quote will stick with me - "Who you are is how you lead." It's one of those phrases that says so much with very few words. Elegantly simple and powerful.  In this episode, Dr. Doug Lindsay and I discuss so many fun topics - Space Force, technology,  the intersectionalities of our work, and his role as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Character and Leader Development.Dr. Doug Lindsay is an experienced leader, communicator, team builder, and coach with a demonstrated track record working in the military, higher education, and consultation in different domains. He is skilled in organizational development and change, leader and leadership development, building high-performance teams, executive coaching, and assessment. He currently works as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Character and Leader Development at the Center of Character and Leadership Development (United States Air Force Academy). Doug conducts research in leadership, applied psychology, behavioral science, and experimental psychology.Learn More About Doug's ProjectsDoug Lindsay at Google ScholarJournal of Character and Leader DevelopmentQuotes From This Episode"Character is not a task, your character is endemic to who you are.""At the Journal of Character and Leader Development...we love to be necessarily different. Because while we’re based out of a military service Academy, the Air Force Academy, we don’t want to be relevant just to the military, just to the Air Force, we want to be able to contribute to the large community of leadership and character development. And so we’re necessarily different in the fact that we tend to focus more on the applied side of things, the 'so what' aspect.""We talk about leadership in the military like it’s something totally different than leadership in higher education. There are differences...but maybe 70 to 80% of effective leadership is cross-domain. Do you communicate? Do you take care of your people? How are you making decisions? Are you inclusive? Are you building diverse teams?""So that 'who I am is how I lead' is not just a thought process, it’s about what I do. And when our intent and our actions align, that’s where we start to get into those ideas of authenticity. Am I who I say I am? Am I showing up how I intend to show up at work?"Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Culture Code by Dan Coyle♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textThis is the quote that really stood out from my conversation with Dr. Jeanie Forray.  I love the notion of 'serendipitous transitions.' "My lived experience has been one of serendipitous transitions. And what I mean by that is that I can look back at moments in my life and say, 'Oh, that was a transition point. And they always led to an opportunity that I could not have foreseen if I had been thinking about what do I want to do next."Jeanie M. Forray is Professor of Management in the College of Business at Western New England University and Adjunct Professor of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations in the Ed.D. program of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Forray served as President of the Western New England University Faculty Senate from 2019-2021, chair of the Management Department from 2007-2015, founded and served as director of the Sophomore Experience Abroad Program from 2010-2014, and co-chaired the university-wide President’s Task Force on Internationalization from 2007-2008.  Dr. Forray received her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in organization studies (OB/OT). She is a Fellow of the Eastern Academy of Management and a Fellow and past President of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society. She has received the Erskine Teaching Fellowship from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand three times, where she conducted teaching workshops for doctoral students and collaborated with university faculty on new pedagogical approaches for active learning classrooms.Dr. Forray is the founding co-editor of Management Teaching Review, the founding editor of Organization Management Journal, and serves currently as co-editor of Journal of Management Education.Learn More About Jeanie's ProjectsDr. Jeanie Forray at Google ScholarSeneca ConsortiumQuotes From This Episode"We don’t always think about what leaving looks like.""I have found through my own lived experience that letting go is as important to the act of leadership or having made a contribution than maybe the contribution itself.""I’ve always liked the term of 'reinventing' because it makes those transitions...exciting. It’s a little scary, too.""If you don’t institutionalize things, they don’t stick. And institutionalizing is a different aspect of leadership than innovating. So if you do have time, you can innovate and institutionalize.""We say that leaders are mentors, but sometimes we have to learn how to step back. Our children grow up, our colleagues grow more mature, organizations shift and change. If we leave the leadership position...then we need to pay a little more attention to what that looks like."Resources Mentioned in This Episode♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Dr. John Antonakis emphasizes the importance of going back to basics in research, leadership development, and leadership selection. The discussion covers topics such as the impact of charisma on adherence to guidelines, deliberate practice in leadership, integrating technology in leadership, innovative solutions in healthcare, and the necessity of sound research methods.

Send us a textIn this episode, Dr. Cynthia Cherrey discusses the past, present, and future of the International Leadership Association.  Her story of the founding is rich and descriptive - an experience of a lifetime.Cynthia Cherrey is President and CEO of the International Leadership Association (ILA), a global community committed to increasing quality research, teaching, and practices of leadership contributing to the common good around the world. As president of a multi-sector and global professional association, she promotes rigor and relevance of leadership at the intersection of theory and practice. Previously, Cynthia served as Lecturer in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Vice President for Campus Life at Princeton University. Dr. Cherrey speaks to non-profit and for-profit organizations around the world and writes in the areas of leadership, organizational development, and higher education. Cynthia’s interests and research explore new ways to live, work, and lead in a knowledge-driven, interdependent, global culture. Recently she did a podcast series for VoiceAmerica’s business channel on global leadership with Maureen Metcalf, host of Innovative Leaders Driving Thriving Organizations. A sought-after advisor, Cynthia serves on the editorial board of Asian Women and the President’s Advisory Group at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Fellow at the World Business Academy, a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow, and a recipient of a J.W. Fulbright Scholarship. Quotes From This Episode"This was an experience of a lifetime to be sitting in the same room with James McGregor Burns, who was one of the founders of the ILA along with Georgia Sorenson. And, of course, the person who helped with the funding of that program was Lorraine Matusek, who was a program director at the Kellogg Foundation at the time.""So we had 100 professionals from across the country who came together to further this conversation. And I think one of the pivotal moments for me out of that conversation was...it was the first time that Warren Bennis and James McGregor Burns got together in person.""In the sense of Lorraine (Matusak) and Georgia (Sorenson), we lost to our founders. And when you think about what they did, in leaving a legacy that's going to echo for generations.""I think one of the things that we have learned in leadership, and especially with crisis leadership, is that it opens the opportunity for change."Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeThe Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.

Send us a textWhat does it take to be a Collegiate Leadership Competition champion? Join the coaches and team members from The University of Delaware, 2021 CLC champions, for their observations on the experience and their thoughts on student leadership. Team Advisor - Susan Luchey is Associate Director, University Student Centers for Leadership Development. She's had a 30-year career in student affairs and created and directs the national award-winning Blue Hen Leadership Program. Susan consultants in the areas of higher ed program design, non-profit boards, and program development.Team Coach - Garrett Beau Currie is a senior and pursuing a degree in economics with a concentration in econometrics. He was named CLC "Coach of the Year" and a former CLC team MVP. He has experience working in prehospital emergency medicine for three years in Maryland and Delaware. Team Coach - Nishant Chintala is a senior pursuing degrees in honors computer science and finance. He's a former CLC competitor and MVP. He was recently named UD’s top male senior in the Class of 2021, winning the Alexander Taylor Award.  He is headed to work for Bloomberg in NYC after graduation.Team members include:Charlie Hannum - a senior honors computer science major while simultaneously pursuing a master’s degree in data science.Kyle Roberts -  a senior communication major with a concentration in interpersonal communication.Craig Klevan -  a senior environmental engineering major.Sean Friday - a junior construction engineering and management major.Matthew Weis - a sophomore honors computer science major pursuing minors in organizational community leadership and cybersecurity.Jacob Herz - a sophomore media communications major pursuing minors in history and journalism.Kathleen Knesek - a first-year art conservation major.What is the CLC?Collegiate Leadership Competition (CLC), a nonprofit founded in 2015, creates a digital practice field where students can actively apply what they learn via CLC’s global virtual competition. Colleges and universities identify a coach and recruit teams of six students. Any student interested in practicing leadership is welcome. Throughout the experience, each team member leads one challenge and receives extensive feedback based on their performance.The competition begins in January. Competition activities occur via Zoom. The top 25 teams with the highest cumulative point total after the first four challenges compete in the global head-to-head in April.CLC’s curriculum explores topics such as the attributes of effective leaders, leadership/followership styles, creative problem solving, and influencing others.Other Episodes About the CLCMeg U'Ren, Ashley Li, & Allison White - Leaders Developing Leaders at Western Univ♻️ Please share with others and follow/subscribe to the podcast!⭐️ Please leave a review on Apple, Spotify, or your platform of choice.➡️ Follow me on LinkedIn for more on leadership, communication, and tech.📜 Subscribe to my weekly newsletter featuring four hand-picked articles.🌎 You can learn more about my work on my Website.